We’re looking for a Senior Systems Engineer to join our Infrastructure team, where you will work with hardware and networking across our data centers, offices, and the cloud to build and maintain critical financial systems.
Wealthfront’s Infrastructure team is a team of “Generalists with Expertise” who adhere to the principles of “infrastructure-as-code” and automation. We operate both physical servers and cloud-based computing, and our network spans both environments.
This candidate will play a key role in shaping future network architecture. We are looking for a candidate that operates comfortably across hardware and software boundaries, bringing strategic expertise to designing, implementing, and maintaining infrastructure.
As a key member of the Infrastructure team, you will:
- Manage our networking and server hardware, topology, and connectivity in our physical data centers and cloud
- Design and build network telemetry, monitoring, and observability
- Build and maintain an automated change management pipeline to deploy network configuration revisions and provision hardware
- Ensure critical services operate reliably by triaging and fixing operational issues as an on-call engineer, participating in post-mortems and implementing improvements to prevent future issues
- Make and collaborate on key decisions regarding the evolution of our infrastructure, such as our hybrid cloud architecture
- Be responsible for liaising with third parties, vendors and internet service providers as well as traveling to our Bay Area and New Jersey data centers and offices for onsite networking projects
This role could be a fit if you have:
- 6+ years of experience with routing and switching in data centers
- Demonstrated experience with Linux systems
- Experience with automating production data center environments, including hardware provisioning, network device configuration, and capacity planning
- Proficiency with Networking protocols such as BGP, MLAG, VLANs, DNS
- Experience with Palo Alto Networks Firewalls, Juniper switches
- Experience with VPN technologies, like OpenVPN, IPSec, TLS
- Experience with AWS Networking technologies like Direct Connect, NACLs, Security Groups, VPC, etc
- Proficiency with automation technology including Chef, Ansible, and Terraform
- Proficiency with at least one language such as Ruby, Go, or Python and configuration management tools such as Git
- Excellent communications and organizational skills
- BS or MS in Engineering or Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience
Once you join, Wealthfront will:
- Provide you with a mentor who who will support you in your onboarding journey
- Encourage you to lead impactful projects that match your professional goals
- Support your professional development by providing feedback during weekly 1:1s and our bi-annual reviews
- Provide autonomy so you can be a happy and successful member of our team
Estimated annual salary range: $172,000 - $228,000 plus equity and a discretionary bonus.
Benefits include medical, vision, dental, 401K plan, generous time off, parental leave, wellness reimbursements, professional development, employee investing discount, and more!
Skills Required
- 6+ years of experience with routing and switching in data centers
- Demonstrated experience with Linux systems
- Experience automating production data center environments, including hardware provisioning, network device configuration, and capacity planning
- Proficiency with networking protocols such as BGP, MLAG, VLANs, DNS
- Experience with Palo Alto Networks Firewalls and Juniper switches
- Experience with VPN technologies like OpenVPN, IPSec, TLS
- Experience with AWS networking technologies like Direct Connect, NACLs, Security Groups, VPC
- Proficiency with automation technology including Chef, Ansible, and Terraform
- Proficiency with at least one language such as Ruby, Go, or Python and configuration management tools such as Git
- Excellent communications and organizational skills
- BS or MS in Engineering or Computer Science or related field, or equivalent professional experience
What We Do
Wealthfront is a nextgen banking service. We help you manage your money for both your short-term and long-term goals by providing a Cash Account with checking features and high interest, best-in-class automated investment management, and free financial advice, anytime you want it. We entered into the banking space in a big way this year with the launch of our cash account that offers an interest rate 5x greater than the national average. We’ve been overwhelmed by the response and have grown nearly 100% this year already to manage nearly $20 billion in total client assets. Our ultimate vision is to optimize and automate all of our clients’ finances and build what we call Self-Driving Money™️. We want clients to be able to automatically deposit their paycheck into their Wealthfront account, and let us take care of the rest — paying their bills, topping off their emergency fund or 401(k), and investing the rest based on their specific goals and lifestyle. Join us so you can help us turn this industry on its head and build a service that our clients don't just like, they love. Wealthfront integrates investing and banking services to make it delightfully easy to build long-term wealth. We're on a mission to build a financial system that favors people over institutions and we're just getting started. Through the power of automation, we deliver personalized, powerful products to help both sophisticated investors and those just starting out learn, lower their costs, and grow their wealth. We're one of the highest rated financial app in the Apple App Store and have been recently named the best robo-advisor and cash management accounts by Nerd Wallet and Investopedia. Want to help us re-architect the financial industry?
